A Decision Rule Aggregation Approach to Multiple Criteria-Multiple Participant Sorting

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 727-745

  Chen, Y ^a   Kilgour, D Marc ^b   Hipel, Keith W ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision rule aggregation; Dempster Shafer theory of evidence; Dominance based rough set approach; Group decision making; Multiple criteria multiple participant sorting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864443312     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-011-9246-6     Document Type: Article

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